Brimstone Coven - Black Magic (Metal Blade)
Genre: Occult Rock
Has the whole ‘occult rock’ thing been done to death? Listening to Brimstone Coven’s Beyond... Read More...
Ketzer - Starless (Metal Blade)
Genre: Metal
Starting life as a blackened thrash outfit, Ketzer now deal in raw, energetic dark rock - which in the case o... Read More...
Hexvessel - When We Are Death (Century Media)
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Hexvessel: a non-metal band that metalheads like. Why? Possibly because there is som... Read More...
Borknagar - Winter Thrice (Century Media)
Genre: Progressive Black Metal
Borknagar’s multi-hued, epic take on black metal has always enthralled… and like ... Read More...
Firespawn - Shadow Realms (Century Media)
Genre: Death Metal
With a collective CV that includes bands such as Entombed (or Entombed A.D.), Unleashed and N... Read More...
Ignite - A War Against You (Century Media)
Genre: Hardcore Punk
In 2006, Ignite released one of the best melodic hardcore albums of the noughties. Our Dar... Read More...
Baron - Torpor (Svart Records)
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Listening to Torpor is like floating above an ancient landscape of green, rolling hills and misty O... Read More...
Images at Twilight - Kings (Indie Recordings)
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal
If Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir or Bal-Sagoth float your black metal boat, the... Read More...
Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II and III (Century Media)
Genre: Gothic Metal/Doom
There’s ambitious and then there’s putting out three albums’... Read More...
Pathological Noise - Gore Aberration (Greyhaze Records)
Genre: Death Metal
Nothing fundamentally wrong with playing a bit of blood-spattered, brutal death... Read More...
Rich is a veteran of the heavy music scene and is widely considered one of the leading experts on doom, death and everything extreme. Rushonrock's deputy editor fulfilled the same role for HRH Mag and continues to forge a reputation as one of the UK's most informed and incisive metal writers.
